Yellow Flag

In March 1864, C. Marion Dodson left his home on Maryland's Eastern Shore to join the U.S. Navy as a pharmacist. Dodson’s diary recounts the tedium of blockade duty in the Gulf of Mexico, leavened by thefight against the spread of yellow fever, social calls ashore in New Orleans and theexciting pursuit of the formidable C.S.S. William H. Webb.